Best quotes by Lionel Richie on Country

Checkout quotes by Lionel Richie on Country

• ‟ By growing up in Alabama, I had a melting pot of the whole pie: R&B, gospel, country.

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• ‟ It's quite interesting that in my growing up I had several influences. We had gospel music on campus. R&B music was, of course, the community, and radio was country music. So I can kind of see where all the influences came from.

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• ‟ It was very interesting in my world, because I grew up as a fan and I did not know that there was a thing called R&B, pop, country, classical - I just knew that I loved music.

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• ‟ Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.

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• ‟ Country is bringing in a little rock element... a little '80s element. Melody is king now. But its just in the music, its not so much in the songwriting, which is still very basic to the storytelling aspect of it.

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• ‟ I want to let everybody know that I'm from there, and country is Tuskegee. Or should I say rather, my country is Tuskegee. I was born and raised there, it's not just someplace I passed through one day.

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• ‟ I am a country boy and proud of it.

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• ‟ Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.

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• ‟ When I was growing up, music was music and there were no genres. We didn't look at it as country music. Popular music in Tuskegee was country music. So I didn't know it in categories. It was the radio.

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• ‟ My earliest memories of country music are the Grand Ole Opry.

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